To guide the book's design, Assistant Professor of Russian Anna Alsufieva reached out again to Ooligan Press, who published a previous Russian Flagship book project in 2010, The Giant's Wealth. "Working with students at Ooligan Press was a very good experience," says Alsufieva. Under the supervision of Ooligan Press Publisher Abbey Gaterud, students Rachel Pass, Adam Salazar, Paige O'Rourke, and Kelsey Yocum completed the book's cover and interior design.

For the graduate students, the book presented a rare opportunity to connect their work at Ooligan Press to another PSU organization: "many of us in the Publishing program are so busy fulfilling various obligations that we don't often have the opportunity to become well-acquainted with the other departments within the Humanities discipline, let alone the larger campus community," said O'Rourke. "Working on this book gave me a little glimpse into another facet of the PSU ecosystem: The Russian Flagship Program."